Chilly Cherries

DLutz

Well I have been busy at work and have not been able to play lately but a bunch of cherries with stems lead to this still life... I found the ice at Wal-Mart in the wedding department love the effect, shot with a strip soft box camera left, and the hair light on a boom camera right w/10 degree grid.
Shot with my 100mm f/2.8 macro at f/14 ISO 100



Let me know what you think??? Thanks

leaforte

Cool shot (pardon the pun)! One thing for me is, my eye keeps trying to complete the bottle, within the frame, and I find that uncomfortable. The lighting is nice, and the elements all play well together.

schmoo

That is a very cool still life, very creative!

I am not familiar with lighting and studio setups, so I don't quite understand why you used a fast, long lens to shoot this scene, especially if it was stopped down to f/14. Could you explain it to a n00b? :hide

DLutz

schmoo wrote:

That is a very cool still life, very creative!

I am not familiar with lighting and studio setups, so I don't quite understand why you used a fast, long lens to shoot this scene, especially if it was stopped down to f/14. Could you explain it to a n00b? :hide

I used my 100mm macro for sharpness and compression the longer focal length compresses somewhat and I also get a bit of working distance from the subjects they are quite small F/14 for enough DOF to keep it all in focus.

schmoo

DLutz wrote:

I used my 100mm macro for sharpness and compression the longer focal length compresses somewhat and I also get a bit of working distance from the subjects they are quite small F/14 for enough DOF to keep it all in focus.

Gotcha. Compression is something I'm familiar with so far only in a landscape setting! And usually then I want the small DOF

Thanks!

RBrogen

Great shot. What was your shutter speed?

DLutz

RBrogen wrote:

Great shot. What was your shutter speed?

1/200 sec, that's the fastest my eBay wireless triger will work at even though my 20D will do 1/250 sec.

Skippy

leaforte wrote:

Cool shot (pardon the pun)! One thing for me is, my eye keeps trying to complete the bottle, within the frame, and I find that uncomfortable. The lighting is nice, and the elements all play well together.

I am finding the same thing Leaforte, the rim on the bottle top doesn't look right, my eye keeps going back there.

Also the ice around the front which is more obvious that a mirror has been used, give the illusion that the ice is vibrating.

I love the colours, and the single Cherry, nice work DLutz
... Skippy
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